230 W. THALBITZER. 
up in order to put it into И.’ Johan Petersen and Sufia translated: ‘I indeed 
helped or threw him up (by the hand), cf. WGr. giluwa: + -m-i(woq). Pre- 
suming that we have this last suffix in the word, the stem of it may just as 
well be qgilerpa: ‘ties the knot for it. — 11. Ittimayeejuk explained cike käte- 
garter ‘ice which has käte-, cf. käcsuk ‘a broken off piece of the inland ice’; 
Kuannia said that kätsoq can mean ‘a small ice-mountain or large ice hum- 
mock, coming from the inland ice.’ “One of the two buriers (said Ittimanee- 
juk) wanted the dead person placed on an ice hummock, therefore buried 
in the sea, while the other preferred to lay him on the land.” — 12. Kuannia 
understood this as ‘his or her sexual parts’ (cf. his explanation of am:uk-a in 
по. 10, note 11 (< am'uka‘rpoq ‘is striped lengthwise downwards’); am-ut-a: 
should be able to mean, according to Kuannia ‘male or female sexual organ’, 
literally, perhaps, ‘his or her down-turned part, or else ‘an instrument to 
draw something out with, an extractor (< amuwa:)? — 13. nätut-a cf. nd- 
lururpa: ‘flings it from him’ (without lifting the arm) and WGr. nåL:orpa: 
‘casts it for scramble, indiscriminately.’ “Thrown up on the beach’ according 
to Sufia. — 14. Variants of the ending: -cun, cin, tson. Ittimaneejuk gave no 
other explanation than that “it was laid on the ground.” Kuannia thousht 
that there was still here hinted at the sexual parts (“Let them get a gilik, or 
get it as qgilik!” cf. по. 12, note 15). The end of the poem caused laughter. 
No. 31. Thy Mother’s Words. 
Teemiartissaq A, Napa В. 
A somewhat mysterious conversation between a brother and a sister. 
The former requests his sister to go down from the mountain where they 
are walking, to fetch something in the hut. Whereupon the sister reminds 
him of the mother’s words that ‘bubble up’ and ‘resound’ in her like a foun- 
tain. The ending seems to indicate that the matter in question is one of the 
mother’s amulets which has its hiding place in the house. 
The two variations I have of this song are almost entirely similar. The 
poem impresses one as being ancient. 
A 
arqalerqale-ra/e 1 My younger brother and I myself 
pisit'oara’ran'on 2 When we had finished walking together, — 
eogagaja'pilag 3 
tin kisiwin atenin 4 You alone go down! 
There were hardly any people: 
alele yılaya 5 I do not intend to go down 
апа‘пашт oga’”sia 6 Thy mother’s word 
pu'orpe:n 7 Have you forgotten it? 
nila'låleg 8 Whizzing out, 
pua:laleq 9 Bubbling — 
umerpala:niwale: 10 With a sound of splashing water 
qu) twatle: " 11 With deep resounding 
a‘rnuarpe nuarte: 12 Their little amulet place 
ge rpüy' паг 13 Their little cutting-board [?). 
